John Milius
Writing
Born April 11, 1944 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA
John Frederick Milius is an American filmmaker. He was one of the writers for the first two Dirty Harry films, received an Academy Award nomination as screenwriter of Apocalypse Now, and wrote and directed The Wind and the Lion, Conan the Barbarian and Red Dawn. He wrote a number of iconic film lines such as "Charlie don't surf" and "I love the smell of napalm in the morning," from Apocalypse Now, and the famous Dirty Harry one-liners delivered by Clint Eastwood, including "Go ahead, make my day" and "Ask yourself one question, 'do I feel lucky?' Well, do you, punk?". Milius also wrote the USS Indianapolis monologue in the film Jaws; the sequence performed by Robert Shaw. After his work on Rough Riders (1997), Milius became an instrumental force in lobbying Congress to award President Theodore Roosevelt the Medal of Honor (posthumously), for acts of conspicuous gallantry while in combat on San Juan Hill. Milius made two films featuring Roosevelt: The Wind and the Lion (where he was played by Brian Keith) and the made-for-TV film Rough Riders (where Tom Berenger took the role).
Filmography
Megalopolis
A Riddle of Steel: The Definitive History of Conan the Barbarian
Self (archive footage)
Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic
Self - Filmmaker
Made in Hollywood: Die Welt des Raoul Walsh
Self
The Lotus Gun
Milius
Self
Jaws: The Inside Story
Self
A Moral Right: The Politics of Dirty Harry
Self
The Long Shadow of Dirty Harry
Self
Between the Lines: The True Story of Surfers and the Vietnam War
Narrator
The Business End: Violence in Cinema
Self
The Evolution of Clint Eastwood
Self
The Craft of Dirty Harry
Self
The Searchers: An Appreciation
Self
Rome
A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
Self
Riding Giants
John Milius
An Opera of Violence
Self - Filmmaker
The Wages of Sin
Self - Filmmaker
Something to Do with Death
Self - Filmmaker
Discovering Treasure: The Story of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'
Narrator (voice)
Frazetta: Painting with Fire
Self
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
Self
Iron and Beyond
Self - Director
Dirty Harry: The Original
Self - Screenwriter
The Bridge on the River Kwai: An Appreciation by Filmmaker John Milius
Self
Conan Unchained: The Making of 'Conan'
Self
Hell Hath No Fury: The Making of The Outlaw Josey Wales
Narrator
A Turning of the Earth: John Ford, John Wayne and 'The Searchers'
Self (voice)
Rough Riders
In the Teeth of Jaws
Self
The Making of '1941'
Self
Shotgun Freeway: Drives Through Lost L.A.
self
Motorcycle Gang
Clear and Present Danger
Rebel Highway
Geronimo: An American Legend
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
Self
Flight of the Intruder
First Works
Self
Farewell to the King
Extreme Prejudice
Mackendrick: The Man Who Walked Away
Self
The Twilight Zone
Miami Vice
Red Dawn
Uncommon Valor
Conan the Barbarian
Foodseller in Old City (uncredited)
Used Cars
1941
Apocalypse Now
Hardcore
Big Wednesday
Crazy Mama
Cop (uncredited)
The Wind and the Lion
Melvin Purvis G-Man
Magnum Force
Dillinger
Marcello, I'm Bored
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
Jeremiah Johnson
Deadhead Miles
State Trooper
Evel Knievel
The Reversal of Richard Sun
The Devil's Eight
The Emperor
Self